OMGOMGOMG Did You See What Rookie Blue Just Did?!?!

Great minds think alike, as Mooch IM’d Ryan to gurgle about season 6, episode 7’s delicious plot twist moments after both had finished watching season 6, episode 7 – without any coordination or planning whatsoever.1 So, even though it’s a week old (hooray for streaming!) – spoiler warning.

Big spoiler warning.

Huge.

We’ll pick up mid-conversation, post a lot of exclamation points, with the caveat that the gents have terrible memories and don’t include character names until most of the way through, if at all.

M: OMG, briliant. F-ing. Twist.

R: Agreed. I could partially see it coming … I knew it would be someone who SAID they were Oliver Shaw but actually was not Oliver Shaw.

M: Well, yes.

R: And I thought it sloppy work that Sam did not follow up on his question about what the cop LOOKED LIKE – but I did not expect it to be Peck the Male.

M: Yeah, okay – THAT bugged the hell outta me. But the reveal itself makes total sense – they set it up well the episode before with all his rule bending/breaking – and yet, still so hurtful. Hasn’t Nash suffered enough?

R: I guess, but what’s Peck’s larger motivation? And OMG can someone please cut Nash a break for real. She just got done being stalked and kidnapped. Meanwhile Andy loses her engagement ring – ONE OF THESE THINGS IS NOT LIKE THE OTHERS

M: I know! I figured Swarek had it – a better resolution than the alternative, that being a drawn out ‘things are missing, and then they are found’ parallel between all three plots.

R: Is it terrible that I was kinda sorta hoping the dirty cop was Swarek?

M: No, because then he’d be interesting.

R: (Still kinda sorta hoping that actually.) Oh yeah, and Andy and Sam missed the whole shooting thing because they were at the cabin.

M: Speaking of Andy, and this show, and them supposedly being cops…

R: Yeees?

M: When she’s chasing the kid through the library – how does she not hurdle the book cart?

R: I KNOW. She, like, stepped into it. I feel like that should be the first thing taught in Being A Cop 101. You jump OVER things, not into them, when you are chasing someone. Maybe she missed class that day.

M: Granted it’s a hard bit to stage since it looks like they’re in an actual library – but I’m not asking for Jackie Chan-level Supercop-ing. I’m asking for her to look like a cop.

R: The other thing about that bit that bothered me was … do you realize how heavy those book carts are? Pretty sure that scrawny girl could not have knocked it over so easily.

M: 15 year old video game girl doesn’t look like she does a lot of upper body work. Although: nice casting with her

R: Agreed, and with the dad too. “I feel like I’m losing my mind.” Such a great line delivery.

M: Yes, dead on. He’s a Canadian actor – was the tech guy on Flashpoint.2

R: The daughter blowing the rape/attack whistle made me laugh, as did Andy’s reaction to it. “Noooo no no no no!” — such an Andy thing to do.

M: Agreed. Although that whole section made me think – how would you know a real cop badge from a good fake?

R: Exactly, and I really loved the crowd forming & pulling out their phones. “What’s the charge against her?” It was played to seem annoying but I was cheering them on.

M: I realize we’re only halfway into the season, but have Gail and Chloe been sidelined?

R: So about Gail – I actually like her this season! I don’t know if it’s me, the writing, or both — but I have really warmed up to her misanthropy. That bucket list scene, where she is trying to come up with things to do – and at one point she says “But I don’t like people, so …”

M: Haw, yes. Then the (odd) butt grab. (Sidebar: was social worker lady established as a lesbian and I missed it?)

R: No, I was wondering about that myself. I wasn’t sure how she’d react when Gail grabbed her butt – still not sure it went over so well. (Or maybe that was just me cringing on the social worker’s behalf).

M: Or on Gail’s – she looked really mortified for a moment.

R: Yeah. So I’m Team Peck the Female this season. Oh, but important! Gail’s hair! It’s like they got tired on putting her in bad wigs.

M: I haven’t really noticed it – so that probably means it’s… sane.

R: Yeah, it used to be this super white blond, or at least that’s how I remember it. Now it’s a much more natural blond, she doesn’t look so washed out all the time. Anyway. So: Chloe.